From Osher Doctorow Ph.D.
I want to thank Bill Jemison for his interest in my postings, and to assure him and other readers that I will try to not over-bombard Fractint with posts far disproportionate to the number of people who are interested. Also, I will try to make postings usually intuitively clear for non-experts in the field(s). On Jim Muth's Precognition comments of Jan. 17, I think that it is an excellent sign of Creative Genius that he is courageous enough to discuss Non-Mainstream ideas. My own opinion is that what some people interpret as Precognition is probably more Telepathy or Clairvoyance (respectively receiving auditory versus visual mental images in one's mind which originate from others' minds). Jim, I would guess, picked up the plotters' thoughts, and I'd suggest trying to compare his location on 9-11 or 9-10 with those of the plotters or else those of people or agencies who might have had an indirect connection to the plotters via (a) support or (b) surveillance. It is even conceivable that Jim picked up NYPD's surveillance of somebody indirectly involved in 9-11 or (crazy as it may sound) even somebody who could explain the anthrax attacks and the deaths of the Vietnamese immigrant in the Bronx and the older woman in Connecticut who died from anthrax poisoning. We run into the difficulty with Telepathy and Clairvoyance that I have run into with Non-Mainstream ideas in Mainstream Mathematics and Physics and other sciences/professions, namely, people who don't experience certain things are very unlikely to believe them. This is especially a difficulty in teaching. I try to teach my college classes in Mathematics with emphasis on most students rather than "exceptionally bright" students partly for this reason. The exceptions often have experienced Mathematics from parents who are teachers, engineers, physicists, and so on, but the majority of students usually have parents who weren't taught well and didn't learn much in mathematics. This disagrees with the way in which most Research Universities teach mathematics, and also with the way in which many Teaching Universities or their faculty teach mathematics. Fractals probably relate to Telepathy and Clairvoyance, in my opinion, through their self-similar Expansion-Contraction property, since I think that Consciousness-Perception-Memory also have (wavelike or field-like) Expansion-Contraction properties. When we awaken, our perceptions and Consciousness and Memory subjectively expands and probably also do objectively via various instruments that can monitor brain activity. When we go to sleep, there is a subjective and probably objective contraction in Consciousness and Perceptions and Memory although during sleep various cycles like REM are known to involve differing degrees of dreaming and so on. Osher Doctorow